Re: FVWM: FIXED: deiconification of windows without an icon

From: Charles Hines <>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:47:54 -0400

>>>>> "Austin" == Austin Donnelly <and1000_at_cam.ac.uk> writes:

Austin> On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Austin Donnelly wrote:
>> In fvwm-2.0.42, if you deiconify a window without an icon associated
>> with it, it appeared behind all other windows, but is entered in
>> fvwm's idea of things as the top-most window.

Just a side note - I don't see this (under AIX). I'll try under Linux
when I get home, just out of curiousity...

....
Austin> Ok, I've got a fix for it:
....
Austin> Basically, what was happening was that when building a list of windows
Austin> to be raised, it would include icon_pixmap_w, which was a NULL (since
Austin> the window had no icon).

Austin> The list of windows to be raised was passed to the X server in the
Austin> XRestackWindows(dpy,wins,i);
Austin> call. In this call, X was taking the NULL in wins to mean the end of
Austin> the list, rather than relying on i. Since the main window is in wins[]
Austin> after the NULL, it never got re-stacked.

Interesting... Well, your patch shouldn't anything, so I'll try it
out and if all is ok it'll be in the next beta release.

Chuck
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